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To say that PDF is the core of your workflow is a simple way of saying many things. It means that you not only work with PDF documents, but that you're also constantly working to transfer source materials in and out of the PDF format. It means you're converting images and text, manipulating pages and entire documents, and using PDFs as forms. It's a huge laundry list of tasks, and you're going to need to be able to tackle all of them with a single application. That's where today's discount software promotion, Debenu PDF Maximus, really shines.

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Thanks @Curt. I have downloaded, installed and run this Debenu PDF Maximus FREE version, and it seems to work fine. (Shall trial it properly later, when I have the time.)During install/registration, it wanted to phone home, so I allowed it through the Firewall as there seemed to be no "OpenCandy"-type issues.

WARNING:This Debenu PDF Maximus FREE version tries to phone home each time you run the proggie, so I disabled that in the Firewall. There seems to be no settings menu in the GUI that allows you the option to disable phone-home actions.

This is a security/tracking issue: I am always suspicious of proggies that phone home by default, when there is no need to do so, and even more suspicious when they bury the option to switch it OFF inside a complex nest of menus (a typical old Microsoft trick in things like Media Player, for example), or - as in this case - give you no option at all so it is always fixed ON.

"Extract Text and Preserve Layout" - That is going to be a seriously cool feature. I've NEVER seen a PDF converted to a DOC that has been remotely sane. Well, for PDFs that are complex beyond "hello world" anyways.

And after a quick test for extracting text, it seems to do a better job than Acrobat. The main issues seem to be line breaks, but that certainly beats the horrors that other conversions inflict.